Selected pages from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta, a 16th-century calligraphic ms. by Georg Bocskay, with illuminations by Joris Hoefnagel, now preserved in the J. Paul Getty Musuem (Ms. 20)."The illustrations in this book have been selected from Mira calligraphiae monumenta, first published by the J. Paul Getty Museum and Thames and Hudson, Ltd. in 1992. The texts have been adapted from the same volume."--T.p. verso.